Staff of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign accepted a 2011 EPA Environmental Quality Award at a ceremony in downtown Manhattan on Friday. According to the EPA, the award is “the highest recognition presented to the public” by the agency and is given to nonprofits, businesses, community groups, educators, and individual citizens who “have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to protecting and enhancing environmental quality and public health.”

Town officials in Hamden and the Board of Education have signed a 10-year agreement with UTC Power to install and operate a fuel cell at Hamden High School.

In response to news reports from Japan about radiation contamination caused by the compromised Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, elected officials on the East End of Long Island are calling for change, the Southampton Patch reports.

Meanwhile, Dominion Nuclear Energy is running ads on National Public Radio’s Connecticut affiliate WNPR that tout the nuclear power plant’s ability to provide clean energy “safely, efficiently and with an eye toward our energy future.”

Join the New England Trail Saturday and Sunday, May 21 and 22, 2001, as they continue the restoration of a segment of the New England National Scenic Trail at Mt. Tom in Holyoke, Mass. Click on this environmental healdine to find out more.

The Environmental Protection Agency is considering a proposal to designate the coastal waters of six Massachusetts towns and the Cape Cod National Seashore as a “no-discharge area,” the agency announced. Read more here: EPA weighs no-discharge zone in Massachusetts | Soundings. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin
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After many years of planning, the boardwalk that connects Walnut and Silver Sands beaches in Milford is completed — and Monday there was a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate.

The Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection has announced that more than $1 million in federal funds are available for boat sewage disposal facilities, or pumpout stations, on Long Island Sound for the 2012 boating season.

Senior Michael Marshall has explored the feasibility of wind-generated power on the ConnCollege campus. He presented his research to a small but engrossed audience in Olin on the afternoon of April 29.

With the proposed Storm Water Authority, we will receive a bill. But, we will then look for ways to reduce our bills by installing rain barrels, a permeable driveway or rain garden, to name a few possibilities.

Jessie Stratton, ENE’s Director of Government Relations since 2006, has moved from ENE to begin work in the office of the new DEP Commissioner, Daniel Esty, effective April 29, 2011. Jessie will be responsible for leading the integration of energy and environmental policies as the agency transitions from DEP to the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, ENE reported.

The State Bond Commission approved spending $89.7 million to construct the long-planned Hartford-to-New Britain busway, despite bipartisan complaints that it should be reconsidered by the General Assembly because of cost increases.

Another heads up from Environmental Headlines with a story from The Hartford Business Journal about John Larson nearing his goal of making natural gas a transportation fuel of choice. He is urging Connecticut businesses to prepare for the upcoming revolution.

Crews stopped working on the highway in 1972. Now, nearly four decades and plenty of false starts later, the state legislature is once again considering completing the highway by borrowing money and then using tolls to help pay for it, Peter Marteka reports for The Hartford Courant. Those voting on the proposal should come down
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A key federal agency and the company that controls the Stevenson Dam will be reviewing the Lower Housatonic River flood plan after receiving letters of concern about flooding in early March.

Scientists, conservationists and town leaders say they’re much more prepared to fend off new outbreaks of the mile-a-minute weed officials expect to sprout up this season. Officials are devising a prevention and scouting strategy using detailed river maps to divide local waterways into sections for monitoring by volunteers and fishermen. They also plan to continue
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Eight northeastern Connecticut towns on Friday signed the Natchaug River Basin Conservation Compact to ensure protection of the Natchaug, Fenton and Mount Hope rivers.

A former senior administrator with the state Department of Environmental Protection told a crowd more than 100 Thursday that it is his understanding that the department strongly opposes a proposal to swap conservation land near the Connecticut River with a developer. Read more here: Haddam: Large Crowd Voices Opposition To Proposed Land Swap – Courant.com.
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